and I agree with what you’re saying about the offense sparking the D, but 320 on the ground! And it’s A&M!? In Lubbock??!! 52 points?! Unacceptable. I think Ruff doesn’t prepare. He seems to just, ‘do what he does’ and hope for the best. Btw, here in Austin I had to listen to the God awful aggie radio broadcast. They kept calling Doege Day-Gee. Ha!

I’m sick to my f-ing stomach.

I don’t want anymore 4-5 star QB’s. They don’t seem to have the smarts to run this “scheme” offense. It doesn’t seem to fit their mold or ours.

I know, I should have thought this post out more but I didn’t. No leader = No Win

Sheffield LEADS and we WIN. Potts didn’t lead the team which resulted in a loss. Being fired up about your job will bring everybody else up around you.

He has the skills but no leadership. There, I said it. That’s the dadgum truth.

how this D is trying to get a stop on 3rd and long by letting the WR’s camp out at the first down marker and our closest DB is 10 yards away. All season our secondary has been doing pretty good, but I don’t know if it was their decision or Ruff’s to play such a soft scheme. Maybe I’m just remembering one or two plays so vividly, but everything was just wrong.

We didn’g even attempt to go downfield when A&M was playing the run tight. We didn’t run when they were playing pass, we tried to screen pass left and right way after they adjusted to it, we dropped balls and fumbled, we didn’t get pressure on JJ, we didn’t play their screen passes like they did ours, I could go on for hours.

This is the first game against the aggies that I have seen us lose. I just don’t know how to handle it. I’m barely hangin’ on here!

makes the scheme calls on D correct? Because whoever truly does that is who I want out of here. We moved back into a “prevent” looking D when we were down in the second quarter. Seems to me when you’re down you start busting heads hoping for a fumble. And how many QB runs for 20+ yards is it going to take for Ruff to figure out to spy a darn QB?!? JJ loves to run the ball, this was established a long time ago. I just really dont understand how you can leave him alone like that. And I fully agree with you on Potts. If he starts next week can I call for Leach’s head and not get griped at about it on here? Potts has the potential, but the way he has played in his last two starts, I think anyone of us could have done just as well, if not better. Leach has to see this as well. And why did we not run more? We were getting decent yardage on every run, why not keep doing it? If I was Batch I would have to be saying something to someone. There’s no sense in it. But yes, our entire team was looking ahead. Defense went back to playing two hand touch football, problem was aTm playing tackle ball. The D was absolutely terrible on all sides last night. But…. on a bright note, Waddle impressed me. He blocked Von Miller better than the starters on the line.

You can’t leave those guys on the field all day and expect them to produce every play. Turnover on downs and INT’s cost us the game. I’m not going to hang the entire thing on Ruffin’s shoulders. You can’t. His name is RUFFIN for crying out loud, that has to count for something.

It was an epic beatdown on the same level of last year’s OU loss. Why? It was a vastly inferior team, it was at home, it was at night. The coaches know went wrong, the players know what went wrong, and the fans know what went wrong.

Can it be fixed? The QB situation will kill us until Sheff is back, I fear. The defense is bi-polar, with fewer manic episodes than depressive episodes. It’s what we are going to have to live with.

Will we get to 7 wins? I seriously doubt it. And that’s not a lack of faith, that’s being pragmatic based on emperical and undeniable evidence after 8 games. Are we terrible? No. Are we really good? No, not really good either. More like the typical Leach team we field – so so, at best.

I guess I don’t see 7-8 wins as much to write home about. Four of those are out of conference gimme’s most years. That means 3-5 or 4-4 in conf. Is that what gets you fired up? If so, then cool. I am not saying, by the way, that we should fire Leach. Just that his teams are typically so so. Smash the bad teams, lose to all but one (typically) good team, lose to one (typically) crappy team. It is what it is.

Camp, how many double digit seasons have we had w/Leach? One, last year, which was awesome. The bowl wins are also nice, but we usually finish the regular season with 7-8 wins. I should have been more specific. Maybe if I phrase it that we usually lose 4-5 games a year.

2000: 7-5
2001: 7-5
2002: 9-5
2003: 8-4
2004: 8-4
2005: 9-3
2006: 8-5
2007: 9-4
2008: 11-2

Now, plenty of schools would love that record from a coach. Some would think that after 10 years we would have shown more than a flash of brilliance (2008). I am not calling for the guys head.

I don’t think it’s awful, like I said. But I don’t consider that real great either. It’s decent. Again, like I mentioned, we are great out of conf against the horrible teams we schedule, drop a clunker pretty much every year in embarrasing fashion, and find a way to beat a team we probably shouldn’t. To me, that’s so-so. Not great, not terrible. But I would prefer a trending towards excellence at some point. I would consider excellence 2-3 losses per year at most.

I think we’ve all realized that Sticks isn’t afraid to make the downfield pass. I love the little swing passes we run to Jeffers and whoever, but when you do it EVERY PLAY, it’s hard to turn any of that into positive yardage. I don’t thing we say ANY down field passes, minus maybe a few up the middle by Doege. And minus the time we’ve had with Sticks, did we ever see any deep passes?

As I commented on another post, let’s get back into this game! The crowd energy was so flat at the game, it was embarassing! Let’s keep our heads up, let the decisions be made by our coaches, and do what fans are suppose to do: Support the team! (am I a hypocrite? ha!)